Translation and dispersion of sediment pulses in flume experiments simulating gravel augmentation below dams

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Sklar, Leonard S ^c   Fadde, Jessica ^c   Venditti, Jeremy G ^d   Nelson, Peter ^b   Aleksandra Wydzga, M ^e   Cui, Yantao ^a   Dietrich, William E ^b  

^a Stillwater Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMORED BED; BED MATERIALS; BED TOPOGRAPHY; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GRAIN SIZE; GRAVEL AUGMENTATION; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; NATURAL SEDIMENTS; PULSE PROPAGATION; RIVER RESTORATION; SEDIMENT PULSE; SEDIMENT WAVES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TRANSLATIONAL COMPONENT;

DAMS; DISPERSIONS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRAVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEXTURES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

DAM CONSTRUCTION; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GRAIN SIZE; GRAVEL BED STREAM; RIVER EVOLUTION; SEDIMENT WAVE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEXTURE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 70349764494     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007346     Document Type: Article

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